River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-15

Myers. a ten-year-olo girl. were caught by
q party Of whites and blaczs on the Sth near
Rives, Tenn. and hanged
THE Barnhill Coal Company of Cleveland,
o., failed on the sth for $l2u.OO0
TIE Prohibition State Central Committee
met on the Sth in indianapolis and re-
solved to call an early convention next wear
and nominate a straight-out Prohib ition
State cket
MEREDITH & ALTMAN. bankers at Silver
City, n. N. failed for a large amount on the
9Th
BOMB was found at Logansport. Ind on
the Sta in a box OF holiday goods SEM
from Chicago TO Al Quaeley, of that city
A REPORT was filed on the 9th with the
Governor by the Illinois Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioners upon the Chats
worth railroad disaster, censuring the Tole-
do, Peoria 4 Western railroad management
for not keeping itself informed Of the con-
dition of its tracks
IL the case of John Arensdorf, on trial at
Sioux City, Ia. for the murder OF Rev. DR.
Haddock, the jury returned a verdict of
mot guilty" on the 9th
AT Elmwood, Tex, the Red river over
flowed its banks on the 9th, destroying a
large potion Of the cotton crop in that
vicinity.
MASKED men dragged Mrs Kingston
Br own and her eigh cen year-old son from
their home at East Bernard, Col, on the 9th
and murdered them. No cause was known
for the crime
The Grand Army of the Republic will
hold its next National encampment at Co
lumbus, o., during the second week OF Sep
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The death of BENJAMIN Rush Plumley,
one of the early Abolitionists, and an asso-
ciate of Garrison and Phillips, occurred at
Galveston, Tex, on the 9th, at the age of
seyenty-seven years
CRUISE RoDERIQUEZ was hanged at Uvalde,
Tex, on the 9th for the murder Of Pancho
Garcia He protested his innocence to the
last
A VALUABLE horse died from hydrophobia
in Chicago on the 9th, caused by the bite
of dog.
AT Bear City. Kan, salg of horse
thieves was attacked by citizens on the 9th,
and three of the former were killed
JUDGE MORGAN l. MARTIN. the founder OF
the city of Milwaukee, died on the 10th al
Green Bay, Wis, aged seventy-two years
A TRAIN on the st Louis, Arkansas 8
Texas railroad was stopped on the 10th by
robbers near Texarkana Ark. and the ex-
press car was robbed of over $40, 900 i'm
money
The death occurred on the 18th at What
com. W. T.. OF s Kalloch. whose quarrels
with Charles De Young. editor of the San
Francisco Cheoaicie. led to the shooting of
the latter by Kalloch's son.
THE house OF Michael Harris, a farmer,
near Washington, d T., was burned on the
lOth, and Mrs Harris and six children per-
is ed in the flames.
The authorities closed two breweries at
Des Moines, Ia, valued at $500, 600, on the
l0-h
SEVEN of the leaders at Cincinnati OF the
Ohio tally-sheet forgeries of 1855 were in
dicted on the 10th
o. the 10th an old man was numerically
whipped and almost drowned by White
Caps at English Crawford County, Ind,
and lynching parties were being formed to
punish the miscreants
On the 18th E. L Harper, the Fidelity
Bank wrecker. was found guilty at Cincn-
natl, as set forth in the thirty-three counts
of the Indictment and was sentenced to ten
years in the Ohio penitentiary, whittier he
was taken in the afternoon
The large wholesale boot and shoe estab-
lshment of Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, in
was destroyed by fire ON the even
ing of the 18th. causing loss of $500, 600